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14. Computation of pension

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

Where a contributor dies on or after the appointed date, the pension payable under this Act to her widower or orphan shall be determined in accordance with the following provisions :—

(a)

where such contributor dies while in the public service or having retired from the public service before reaching the age of compulsory retirement or a widow on

Widowers and Orphans Pension after having been retired from the public service on any ground other than’ on ‘the grounds set out in the Establishments Code, the amount of such pension shall—

(i)

if the period of her pensionable service at the time of her death or retirement, as the case may be, is less than twenty-five years, be an amount equal to the pension payable under the Minutes on Pensions either for a period of twenty-five years’ pensionable service or for a period of pensionable service which she, if she had not died or retired, would have completed upon reaching the age of compulsory retirement, whichever is the shorter,

(ii)

if the period of her pensionable service at the time of her death or retirement, as the case may be, is not less than twenty-five years, be an amount equal to the pension payable under the Minutes on Pensions for that

.period of pensionable service

Provided that where such person was at the time of her death or retirement, the holder of a Special post or office the amount of such pension shall be not less than fifty per centum of her last salary

;

(b)

where such officer dies after having retired or having been retired from the public service on the ground of having reached the age of compulsory retirement or on any ground set out in the Establishments

Code, such pension shall be an amount equal to the pension payable under the Minutes on Pensions for her period of pensionable service

;

(c)

where such officer after having been appointed permanently to a statutory body with the approval of Government dies while in the service of such statutory body or in any other statutory body to which she had been subsequently transferred or dies after having retired or hav::g been retired in rensionable circumstances from the statutory

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body to which she had been permanetitly appointed from Government service or from any other statu-tory body to which :she-had been. ‘subsequently transferred, the amount of such pension shall be an

“amount equal to the pension payable

° cunder® “the

Minutes on Pensions for the period of perisionable service.

(2)

In this section—

“age of compulsory retirement ”, in relation to an officer}

‘means the age at which the: retirement of that officer.

from the public service is:

= compulsory:;

;

“last salary

(a)

in relation to a contributor who dies while in the public service means the salary of the contributor.

at the time of her ‘death } and -

(b)

in relation to a contributor who dies after leaving the public service, means the salary of that contri-butor at the time of her. retirement-from the.

' public service or at the time of her release from:

the public service for permanent appointment in a, statutory body, as the case may be;

“pensionable circumstances” means grounds of age, ill .

health, abolition of office or any other ground on ~

which a person is entitled to the payment of a pen-

. Sion under the Minutes on Pensions;

“pension payable ‘under ‘the: Minutes on Pensions”

includes any climate bonus payable under those

Minutes and any other pensionable allowance but does not include any other addition to the pension payable under those Minutes or any reduction made in such pensions

;

“ pensionable service” means any service actually per-formed by the officer and reckoned as service for pension under the Minutes on Pensions but does not include any special service provided for in the

Minutes on Pensions

;

“ special post or office” means—

(a)

the post or office of the Judge of the e

Supreme Court and any other post or office specified in Schedule

M to the Minutes on Pensions: ahd

(b)

any post or office held by a person who is a judicial officer within the meaning of section 25a of the

Minutes on Pensions ; ,

“statutory body ” has the same meaning as in section 48a of the Minutes on Pensions ; and

“transferred” has the same meaning as in section 48s ‘of the Minutes on Pensions.

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